The Problem With (a lot of) Email Accounts

Trying to accept the challenge, here I am again, posting another random muse of mine. I'm actually thankful that it crossed my mind to make a post based on something that happen to me like, just now.

It's about email. My excessive email accounts. I think every single person that is computer, technology and internet literate have email account. I bet it is more than one. Like, for personal, for profesional, for second life, for stalking and for spam. Like, don't ever try to deny this. This is the reality for internet user.

I confess, I don't even remember what is my first email account. But, I do remember it was a Yahoo account. Google was just a toddler back then. Then, I adopted the hotmail account during college, and finally the Gmail when I was about to enter uni. That was just about three. But it should be more. It supposed to be two email account for each service provider, so I basically have six email account. And, up till present, I probably have more than 20 email accounts, and still counting.

While I was checking my email(s) accounts, I found out that some of them doesn't exist anymore. I panicked, since I have LJ and tumblr account (which I care a lot) registered using those accounts. They just disappear. Perhaps, Microsoft decided to delete my accounts due to inactivity, or because the account name are just too childish to be owned by a real person. I don't even want to think about my personal MSN account that I use to chat with some of my friends. Maybe Microsoft have decided to delete those as well. I can only hope they don't.

While panicking, first thing that come to my mind was to create a new gmail account and update the LJ account with the new email. But creating a new gmail account seem to be a pain in the behind. My phone numbers was needed for verification, which is quite intrusive for me. I don't even give my phone to my family members, why should I give it to Google. I finally understand why one of my online friend freaked out when I suggest her to create a gmail account, so that I can chat with her through gchat. Phone numbers are sensitive and private, because in this modern day, technology have peel down our armor. We can reach almost anyone and everyone.

I still haven't figure out the conclusion for this post, since I just want to vent out my frustration with those email accounts. And yeah, email me. I don't answer phone call or reply text messages anymore. 

A Challenge For Ai

After reading and reading and thinking and thinking and reflecting, I want to challenge myself to blog seriously. As in, writing at least two blogposts per day in specific topic. In this blog, I've post random things, whatever that crossed my mind at any given time when I was struck by the writing bug. I want to write more. But, yeah, I'm still on my Procrastination Queen seat. Somehow, I'm slowly stepping down, because real life is knocking hard somewhere. 

So, here I am, challenging myself to write at least three blogposts per day, for about two weeks. If I could do it, I'll officially buy a domain name or two and start blogging in subject that I'm most passionate about. It's a hard thing to do, since I'm passionate about lots of things in my current stage of life. There are so many things that I can write about, but I need to focus. This blog probably gonna be where I write things that I can't put in specific focus. 

I also need to get back to social media. I haven't login to my twitter for nearly a year. My Facebook, hah, I just login today, since my cousin asked me for a recipe. I think social media is a great way to reach out to audience, but I'm somewhat spooked off with the unlimited information sharing by those who are quite active in those social media. I stopped myself from falling into social media addiction. I don't want to over-share my life with everyone. Just a thing or three is probably fine, but everything is way too much. 

I also need to remind myself not to get discourage by my bad writing and grammar mistakes. It will get better with more writing and reading. I'm not perfect, yet, at least I've tried to be better. And now, I need to search the internet for things that caught my interests and maybe inspire me to write from there. Good luck Ai.